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Outdoor focus group rejects single-use plastic
Getting rid of single-use plastic in the outdoor industry is the target set by a group of European outdoor suppliers and retailers as a project intended to protect the environment, stay ahead of legislation and emphasize sustainability as an asset for outdoor companies.The participants have set a deadline in January ...
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Hydro Flask grows nicely
Strong growth by Hydro Flask in the U.S. and abroad helped its parent company, Helen of Troy, to book a sales increase of 18.9 percent to $117.3 million for its housewares segment in the first quarter of its new financial year, ended on May 31. The segment's adjusted operating margin ...
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Desperation can drive inspiration
It's another way of saying that necessity is the mother of invention... Apparently, that was the case for Gleb Skorobogatov, who has been an extreme adventurer for more than 20 years, if his story is true, when he was stuck down in a cave with a knee injured from a ...
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Columbia keeps OutDry to itself
Columbia Sportswear, which acquired OutDry Technologies eight years ago, quietly decided to take no more orders for the waterproof-breathable membrane placed by any of its 50-plus external clients after May 15. The company will continue to use the special lamination technology only for the products of its own brands, including ...
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Tepid growth for China’s outdoor market
The Chinese outdoor market suffered another year of tepid growth, as the performance part of the market was estimated by the China Outdoor Association (COA) to have expanded by just 3.2 percent to 19.03 billion yuan renminbi (€2.4bn-$2.9bn) in 2017.The market's performance was outlined at the OutDoor fair by Steve Huang, ...
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Top management changes at VF
Kath Smith, the seasoned executive who replaced Arne Arens as vice president and general manager for The North Face in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in March of last year, has informed us that she plans to leave the company and retire at the end of this month. ...
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The Luhta Group buys into Dachstein
The L-Fashion Group is acquiring a stake of 49 percent in Dachstein, the venerable Austrian brand of outdoor shoes, through Luhta Sportswear Company. The Finnish group's chief executive, Vesa Luhtanen, described the move to us as a strategic investment intended to turn it into a key partner for its clients ...
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Bumper year for Europe’s outdoor market
The European outdoor industry enjoyed a bumper year in 2017 with a sales increase of 7.2 percent to €5.86 billion at wholesale level, based on the State of Trade report published by the European Outdoor Group (EOG) at the OutDoor fair last month.The report found that vendors' deliveries to the ...
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Patagonia-supported Balkan river campaign gains momentum
Save the Blue Heart of Europe, the campaign involving Patagonia to protect the last wild rivers of Europe on the Balkan Peninsula from the threat of nearly 3,000 proposed hydropower plants, reached the European Parliament with a film screening and a debate in Brussels late last month.The event was held ...
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Eco-products dominate Scandinavian awards
A floating and light-weight outdoor knife from Morakniv, made at the company's own production plant in Mora, has been picked as the overall winner of the Scandinavian Outdoor Awards for the next spring/summer season.The knife with a handle made out of cork and a serrated blade was selected out of ...
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Hudy Sport's owner takes control of Direct Alpine
Jindrich Hudecek, the owner of Hudy Sport, the Czech outdoor retailer, has raised his stake in Direct Alpine from 50 percent to 90 percent. This leaves just 10 percent in the hands of Radek Nová?ek, the Czech outdoor and winter sports brand's founder.Ji?í Doubrava, a former engineer in the car ...
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Kathmandu ahead of expectations
Shares in Kathmandu soared after the New Zealandese outdoor retailer issued a profit upgrade late last month, due to the strong start of the second half of its fiscal year, which runs until the end of July.The retailer said that its sales in the 47 weeks from the start of ...
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Mammut moves ahead with digitalization
The Mammut Sports Group is starting to implement its digitalization with customized products and a smartphone app to be launched early next year, along with an updated concept for the brand and its product assortment.The Swiss outdoor company went through a wide-ranging clean-up in the last two years, mostly implemented ...
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Icebreaker widens its urban adventure target
The rapid development of an apparel range for urban consumers is one of the potential advantages to be drawn by Icebreaker from its acquisition by VF Corporation, which provides the New Zealand merino brand with access to a wealth of consumer insights.Icebreaker has built up a business reaching a turnover ...
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…and what about outdoor in Friedrichshafen?
Messe Friedrichshafen, which has been organizing the annual OutDoor show on Lake Constance for one-quarter of a century, is not giving up on the outdoor sector. As previously reported, it plans to organize a new outdoor show from next summer, at still unspecified dates. Under a gentleman's agreement with Messe ...
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Canada Goose posts a revenue increase of nearly 50%
Canada Goose reported a revenue increase of 46.4 percent to C$591.2 million (€384.6m-$447.1m) for its fiscal year ended on March 31, as compared to fiscal 2017. On a constant-currency basis, the revenues increased by 47.7 percent. The company said the performance in fiscal 2018 was exceptional across all growth strategies ...
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Sport 2000 launches the specialist Absolute retail brand
Sport 2000 Europe has created the Absolute retail brand for affiliated retailers that want to adopt a harmonized specialist concept. The buying group envisages several iterations of the retail brand in various categories, from Absolute Teamsport to Absolute Run, Absolute Fitness and Absolute Outdoor.The move follows the launch of Sport ...
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Trespass gains traction in France and Germany
Trespass has seen its sales in France and Germany expand at triple-digit rate in the last year, as part of the Scottish-based outdoor and winter sports apparel brand's multi-faceted international expansion plans.The advances in the two countries are part of an international development strategy that has been focusing on European ...
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Customization boosts Tecnica Outdoor
The Tecnica brand expects to see its sales of outdoor shoes rise by between 30 and 35 percent this year, thanks largely to the successful launch of Forge, the new customization process inspired from its ski boot segment that was presented at the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen one year ago. ...
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Fischer buys One Way Sport, Asics expands in the Nordics
Fischer Sports has acquired the trademarks, patents and other intellectual property rights of One Way Sport, a major Finnish-based producer of cross-country ski poles that diversified into many other sectors during the 14 years of its existence. Using its know-how in the use of composite materials and its international sales ...
